RE: [amsat-bb] UO36/S-Band?

[Chris Jackson <c.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Freddy ON6UG who ran the demo said the following -:

The demo was perfect. At AOS the satellite was behind the lecture theatre
but pointing to the building opposite the lecture entrance the signal was
very strong and fully quieting on reflection  with a BW of 35 kHz receiver.
It was easy to find the signal as it was so strong.
Later the signal was end stopping the s-meter when overhead and very steady.
So it looks like the power output of the satellite is much too strong for a
normal reception on a normal antenna.
A 10 dB reduction would give the same results.
The audience was of course very impressed with the strong signal.



-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Davis [mailto:jeff@jehosophat.com]
Sent: 29 July 2000 15:35
To: Viktor Kudielka
Cc: AMSAT-BB
Subject: Re: [amsat-bb] UO36/S-Band?


Quoting Viktor Kudielka (viktor.kudielka@ieee.org) [000729 15:28]:
> The UO-36 2401.5 MHz beacon this morning (JN88DF, 11:46 - 12:00, 
> peak el. 36 deg.) could be heard with a 40 el. Yagi/UEK-2000SAT
> converter S1/S2 above quite a lot of local noise. The beacon switched 
> off around 11:56 as announced, I didn't check the time precisely.
> I haven't checked UO-11 for quite some months, so I was quite
> surprised by the number of new local noise in this band, about every
> 2 kHz a carrier ( I have to check my computers before I complain!) 
> 73, Viktor OE1VKW

Viktor,

Excellent news!

I hope the folks at the UK-Colloquium were able to enjoy it. 

It is always good to know that the onboard computer did what it was
told, when it was told to do it. :-)

Based on your location, signal report and the fact that UO-36 wasn't
pointing straight down, it sounds like the 1W downlink was doing ok.

Thanks for the report.

Vy 73,
-- 
jeff davis, n9avg

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